maerF0x0

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by maerF0x0 6mo ago
And you think companies aren't doing the same back to us? Are you sure you're speaking to a human?
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by maerF0x0 7mo ago
Why not? Are you considering git worktrees?
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by maerF0x0 7mo ago
Isn't that nearly everything public?
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by maerF0x0 7mo ago
As someone who sees value in generational contracts like older people investing heavily in younger people, with the assumption that they will also take care of us in our older age, I long to improve the lives of subsequent generations. I do
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by maerF0x0 7mo ago
I had never heard of this, why session over signal? Edit: here is a snippet from google AI: Signal is a secure, user-friendly WhatsApp alternative requiring a phone number, while Session prioritizes maximum anonymity with no phone numb
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by maerF0x0 7mo ago
Interesting point. Autonomous cars themselves could sell all the data they collect (like license plates, but also street maps, live traffic data, pot hole counts and locations etc)
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by maerF0x0 7mo ago
And switches to Axon - https://denverite.com/2026/02/24/denver-ends-flock-contract-... I have not done any research if that's out of the frying pan and into the fire or an improvement
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by maerF0x0 7mo ago
> Owen’s team reviewed data on monthly job applicant totals for 2023, 2024, and early 2025 from a Burger King franchise group that operates more than 50 locations in California and saw clear evidence of a dramatic increase in application
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by maerF0x0 7mo ago
I agree with aspects of what you mean. But there are exceptions on both sides. Ofc people dont want to become human fax machines (Morse decoders) nowadays, it would feel absurd. But also if a role allows someone to feel satisfaction in acco
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by maerF0x0 7mo ago
Correct. I was using labor participation rates. As a society gets depressed and has a hard time people stop trying (ie they no longer count as unemployed, which doesnt count the people who are no longer trying to get a job). Similar to how
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by maerF0x0 7mo ago
It's still 10s of millions of people who could be given a job (and some hope and purpose too btw) Edit: btw I agree there's more to life than work. But when you're unemployed and hoping for work, competing against robots and
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by maerF0x0 7mo ago
"No one wants" usually includes an insufficient wage, sometimes also an issue of insufficient investment in training for skilled folks. eg if you need a doctor in 12 years you have to start more or less today. A quick google sugge
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by maerF0x0 7mo ago
if this source is to be trusted it's now half https://wrdnews.org/illicit-tobacco-in-australia-half-of-all... (I did not vet anything, I just googled your words because I wanted to know more)
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by maerF0x0 7mo ago
Meanwhile we keep truly destructive things like alcohol legalized... For the freedom of normal folks to have 1 beer, 25% of the population is drinking 78% of the consumed alcohol.[1] And before anyone brings up that myth there is no benefic
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by maerF0x0 7mo ago
You're right, I was thinking about 100x revenues and forgot to confirm the math. Updated to reflect your point. ChatGPT itself provided the 17% number (it's most recently available growth rate)...
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by maerF0x0 7mo ago
30x revenues at 17% revenue growth is... aggressive.
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by maerF0x0 7mo ago
I cant wait for useless jobs like Karen's from Compliance to be replaced with a highly capable AI that is tuned to think on it's feet (so to speak). Yes, I realize there will be cynics who say "The difficulty is by design to
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by maerF0x0 7mo ago
*nix is not a viable option? That's news to me. I agree it's not as easy as pre-installed, but it definitely is viable.
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by maerF0x0 7mo ago
And as for a better solution, Teach kids. Once I'm an ornery PTA parent I'm going to push for programming and *nix of some sort to be taught to the school, even if I have to volunteer to do it myself.
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by maerF0x0 7mo ago
> I think consumers have little power here. Our economic system fundamentally chooses to reward such behaviour. Consumers have the final say, our economic system fundamentally is consumer spending. (Ok, save for most recent year(s) of ma
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by maerF0x0 7mo ago
Yes, NIMBY-ism has done hard things to those specific areas. At least as far as we trust chatgpt, but people are still living in more median sq ft per person today than long ago (think 50-100 yrs ago). Of course rent per person will go up i
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by maerF0x0 7mo ago
"All" is a pretty high bar. I think a huge proportion of the developed world has a lot of choice and is repeatedly choosing stuff/experiences over people. Not sure how we'd find data to resolve that... People living payc
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by maerF0x0 7mo ago
> But it's not like that at all elsewhere in the world. It varies a lot. I myself never ask that question, unless it's for a very specific reason. And _never_ as part of an introduction. Can you share some area(s) it's not
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by maerF0x0 7mo ago
You're right, if you've diminished yourself to a generic "consumer", and haven't interleaved yourself into a fabric of value beyond economic. Relationships are worth a lot and can't really be bought. Do/Wi
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by maerF0x0 7mo ago
Engineers have never been calculators or specification machines. Good engineers have always been builders. Our identity is "I build stuff that works well and improves lives" ... Architects needn't be diminished by CAD. Teache
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by maerF0x0 7mo ago
> 500 lb barbell curls ?
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by maerF0x0 7mo ago
I understand what you're saying, but I was speaking in the ideal or purpose, rather than the defacto/pragmatic.
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by maerF0x0 7mo ago
They tell us over and over again that we should have no expectation of privacy or not being filmed in public. Well, IMO they should not have any expectation of privacy or not being filmed when on private property and conducting the work _th
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by maerF0x0 7mo ago
They tell us over and over again that we should have no expectation of privacy or not being filmed in public. Well, IMO they should not have any expectation of privacy or not being filmed when on private property.
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by maerF0x0 7mo ago
(flinstones reference, for our younger readers)

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